4 July 2012 Current Affairs

Assamese Poet Hiren Bhattacharyya Died

Popular Assamese poet and Winner of the Sahitya Academy Award and several honours for  Hiren Bhattacharyya who passed away at a private hospital on 4 July 2012.He had been undergoing treatment for long and urinary infection since June 14. He was 80 . popularly known as Hiruda, Bhattacharyya was widely known for using single words in his poems.

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God of all particles found !

British researches from the large Hadron collider at CERN(european organization for Nuclear research) said here on 4 July 2012 they have found a new subatomic particle consistent with the elusive Higgs boson, which is thought to give mass to elementary particles. These results mark a significant break through in our understanding of the fundamental  laws that govern the Universe”, said prof.john Womersley , CEO of the science & Technology facilities Council.  The particle was proposed in 1964 by three groups of physicists, including Britain’s peter Higgs, after whom it was  named. The results were labelled as preliminary, based on data collected in 2011 and 2012 data still under analysis. But scientists are 99.99% sure the new particle is Higgs Boson, or the “God Particle”as it better Known.

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Quick At-Hone HIV Wins FDA Nod

After decades of controversy, the food and Drug administration, or FDA on 3July 2012 approved a new HIV test that for the first time maker it possible to learn in the privacy of their homes easy to use as a home pregnancy kit. The “OraQuick Test”,by Orasure Technologies,uses a mouth swab and gives results in 20-40 minutes.

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Jawahar Thkur assumed the Charge as the controller General of Accounts

Jawahar Thakur, a 1979 batch Indian civil accounts service officer took over as the new controller General of Accounts (CGA) of India, the past earlier held by c.R.Sundaramurti, Prior to his appointment as the CGA,Thakur was the principal chief controller of Accounts in the central board of Direct Taxes(CBDT) under the department of Revenue in the Finance Ministry.

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3 July 2012 Current Affairs

UK To Test World’s first Pilotless Fighter By 2013

Pilotless fighter planes have come a step closer to reality as British Aerospace revealed that it would test such a new fighter jet next year.The company is set to unveil a new super-fighter which can fly on its own for 24 hours with no cockpit and no human on board, according to a media reported.If all goes as planned the artificial intelligence could mean the end of fighter pilots in the UK and bring down the curtain on conventional aircraft like the F-35.

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CEO Diamond Quits Barclays

Barclays chief executive diamond resigned on 3 June , followed a few hours later by the bank’s chief operating officer, in a deepening scandal over the rigging of a key global interest rate. The latest resignations took to three the number of senior Barclays executives have to quit in the last two days. Mr.diamond and COO Jerry del Missier stepped down the day after Barclays chairman Marcu Ahius resigned on 2 June 2012 and amid an intense London financial sector.

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Cabinet clears Rs.Crore Plan To Airlift Bhopal Waste

Almost three decades after deadly gasses spread out of the Union carbide plant in Bhopal, the union cabinet has finally approved the proposal to airlift 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the defunct pesticide factory site to Germany for sale disposal.The central government will pay Rs.25Lakh to German firm G12 to remove the waste.

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Government To Setup Rs.2000 Crore venture Fund For R&d in Pharma

The central Government has decided to setup with a venture capital of Rs.200o Crore which will promote research and development(R&D) in the pharmaceutical sector.India is the third largest producer of pharma products by volume, and the industry in growing at 15-20 percent annually.

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PRI Leader Enrique Pena Nieto Elected as the New President of Mexico

The institutional Revolutionary Party leader Enrique Pena Nieto was elected as the new president of Mexico on 2 July 2012. In the presidential election held on July 2012, Enrique Pena Nieto beat party of the Democratic Revolution candidate Andres Manual Lopez obrador of the total 98% votes counted , Pena Nieto bagged 38% votes, while former Mexico city Mayor Andres Manual Lopez obrador got 31% votes. Nieto succeeded felipe calderon on the top most position of the country.

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2 July 2012 Current Affairs

Pawar Quits as Tele – GOM

Within days os his appointments,Agriculture Mnister sharad pawar on 2 July 2012 recused himself from heading the Empowered group of Minister(EGOM) on telecom.The Agriculture minister was named the head of the EGOM that was to decide on the pricing and auction of telecom spectrum after pranab mukharjee quit as Finance Minister to contest Presidential elections.”Attempts have been made in the past to unneccessarily drag me in the controversy on 2G spectrum.These allegations are false and and ill -motivated which one have firmly refuted, “MR.Powar said in his letter to PM,”As such one thoughts it will be appropriate for me to recuse myself from the position of chairman of EGOM”Mr Powar added.

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Zebra Fish Research Facility Opened at CCMB

A state of the art research facility on zebrafish, an important animal model to study modern biology and human diseases, was inaugurated at the center for cellular and Molecular Biology(CCMB).The genome of Zebrafish was similar to the genome of humans and this has prompted CCMB to deal exclusively with their ti investigate development biology invertebrates.

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Exports down 4.16% in May

In an sign of depending of economics crisis and global slowdown impacting overseas shipments especially to the US.and European markets, India’s exports have taken plunge, registering a drop of 4.16% at 25.68billion in May when compared with the year ago period.

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ICIC Bank Sells Its Debt In Kingfisher to Srei Arm

ICIC Bank sold its entire debt of Rs. 430crore in the crisis -ridden Kingfisher to Srei venture capital Ltd,a group company of srei infrastructure Finance Ltd. Kinfisher airlines owned by liquor baron vijay Mallaya was launched in 2005 and has not reported profits since.The airlines has a total debt of a round Rs.7500crore.Banks which had given loans to kingfisher Airlines include SBI(Rs.1400 crore),PNB(around 700 crore), Bank of Baroda (around Rs.500Crore) and ICICI bank(around Rs.450 crore).

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GSK to pay $3b For Health Fraud

Glaxo smith kline(GSK) would pay $3 billion and plead guilty to promoting two popular drugs for unapproved uses and to failing to report important safety data about a diabetes drug to the Food and Drug Administration, the justice department said on 2 July 2012. Government officials say it’s the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S history.

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Barclays Chairman Quits over LIBOR row

Barclays bank, on 2 July, said its chairman Marcus Agius had resigned  following the bank being slapped with 290 million pound ($451million)fine by the U.S and the U.K authorities to settle the charges of manipulating global benchmark lending rates.

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Spain Won “UEFA Euro Cup FootBall Championship 2012″

Spain beat Italy 4-0 in the final to win UEFA (Union of European football Associations) Euro cup Football championship 2012 at the Olympic stadium in kiev, Ukraine , on 1July 2012. Spain has set up a record by becoming the first team to claim two consecutive titles in tournaments 52-year long histiry  Iker casillas was the captain of spain team.The four goals hit by David Silva, Jordi Alba, fermando Torres and Jvan Mata led the spain team to a remarkable victory. Spain midfielder andres Inierta of spain was declared as the mass of the match given the golden boot as he scored three goals in the spain’s title winning campaign.Torres also became to score in two separate European championship finals.

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1 July 2012 Current Affairs

Wester Ghats Now In World Heritage List

The Western Ghats has made it to the coveted list of world Heritage sites.The world Heritage committee, meeting in        st. Petersburg, Russia, late on on Sunday  1 July 2012 , decided to inscribe 39 serial sites of the western Ghats of India on the world Heritage list.”The Western Ghats was inscribed under criteria 9 and 10 of the operational Guidelines of the world Heritage convention.”Vinod B. Mathur, Dean of the Wild Life institute of India told from Russia . To explain it  clearly, Western Ghats are those properties which contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding Universal value from the point of science conservations.

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Nayudamma Award for TCS Rajanna

V,Rajanna , President of the IT and ITES Industry Association of AP(ITsAP) and global head of TCS’s Telecom Technology Business unit , Hyderabad , has been chosen for the Nayudamma Award for the year 2012 .The Nellore based Nayudamma center for development Alternatives (NCDA) Chosen MR.Rajanna in recognition of his outstanding contribution in ITA communications.

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Jandhyala In Now Cheif I-T Commissioner

Suresh jandhyala took charge as chief income -tax commissioner Hyderabad. An IPS officer of 1979 batch, he will also hold the additional charge of chief commissioner of I-T III , Hyderabad . Bibadh Dutta , an IRS officer of 1978 batch, assumed charge as director general (Investigation),Hyderabad.J.K.Hota , an IPS officer of 1970 batch charge as chief commissioner I-T II, Hyderabad.

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Ice Land Prez Wins Record 5th Term

Ice Land’s President Olafur Rognar Frinsson is set for a record Fifth term in office with 100 percent of votes counted from 30 June poll , the socialist Grimmson won 52.78%. While his main rival Thora Arnors dottir came in second with 33.16 percent.

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Eight Core sector Registered 8% Growth in May 2012

As per the latest data released by the commerce and industry monostry on 29 May 2012, the eight core sectors registered a higher growth rate of 38% in May 2012 .The sector has posted a sluggish 2.2% growth in April 2012. The eight industries – steel , fertilizers,coal, petroleum refinery products, crude oil, natural gas, electricity and cement- collectively amounts 37.9% of the index of industrial production(IIP).
Infrastructure          -4.2%
Cement        – 11.3%
Coal     – 8%
Natiura gas -10.8%
Fertiliserd -15.1%
petroleum – 2.9%
crude oil – 0.5%
steel -4.9%
electricity-5.2%

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